Ipad 1 slows down after installing IOS 5

I went to the nearest Apple Store to consult their expert.

You can get an appointment at that store by searching for it on the Net.

So, he reassured me that iOS 5 is really wonderful.

He used a Mac and re installed my firmware.

Let's hope this helps.

Geoffrey

I have also reported via the link, everyone needs to do this, they need to know how bad ios5 has made the ipad1 so they can fix it!

I wish there was an undo button, my ipad was great before upgrading, the sheer amount of pageviews on this thread must indicate this is a very common issue with ios5 on ipad 1

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

I've also done the upgrade and also had many of the issues listed here - specifically when it comes to typing into something like Safari - it can take 2-3 seconds for a character to appear on-screen!

This really isn't good enough. So I've now also reported this via the link.

I was having similar problems to many described here after upgrading: unbearably slow launching and operation of various apps, particularly browser-based ones (a WebKit-related issue?), and frequent crashes. I'd experienced one other issue that I haven't seen mentioned so far, though: whenever I opened up Notification Center by sliding down the little grey drop-down sheet, I'd see some of the notifications constantly flicker, and the sheet itself would jerk up and down slightly as long as it was kept open. The problematic notifications were all Calendar events.

Based on some of the suggestions earlier in this thread, I tried disabling Notification Center — but only for the Calendar app. That was enough to restore most of the expected performance of my iPad; it still seems a bit laggy, and there are occasional crashes, but the improvement was immediate and obvious. Can anyone else pin the trouble down to calendar notifications in particular?

Baroquem,

I also experienced the flickering "Notification Center" with calendar notifications, that was the main reason I turned the notification off. Not saying it's the main or only culprit but it fixed my problems with iPad1 and iOS5.

exact same issues here. I tried removing excessive apps from the multitasking bar and that helped a little. Also did a restart (hold down sleep and home buttons till you see apple logo) and that didn't help at all.

I did a restore as a new iPad using a different pc. My iPad is back to normal

1- took unusable iOS 5 iPad1 to apple store. Unhappy.

2- got REPLACEMENT iPad1 with 4.0. Thank you, Apple!

3- re-downloaded apps. 5.0-ready apps don't work and my saved data does not reappear. Unhappy.

4- restored from backup. All apps working. Then crashes start again.

5- took new unusable iOS 5 ipad1 to apple store AGAIN. Talked with James in the Christiana Mall store (not your fault James... It's your bosses I have problems with)

6- told to restore as new. Told to re-download apps. To confirm, yes, my data may be unrecoverable. Unhappy. Steaming, actually.

7- my choice: apps crashing and data, or complete restore from scratch and no data.

8- Apple, I trusted this device for my business before ios5, but those days are over. Waste of $500, untold app purchases, and too many hours. Doesn't seem like they are particularly worried.

You should definitely post your experience directly to Apple at this link:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Maybe there is power in numbers. I posted them with my experiences. BTW, don't give up yet...I was able to get my iPad 1 workable. I don't know if my solution would help you or not. Look at your Bookmarks and Bookmark Bar in Safari and see if there are any spurious bookmarks there. I eneded up with hundreds of identical broken links after I upgraded to iOS5 and migrated from MobileMe. After I deleted them, and just enabled the few Notifications that I most wanted to have, my problems mostly disappeared. It's still maybe a little slow, but definitely completely usable (and still faster than many computers I owned in the past...).

If you do have many, many bad bookmarks that appear on your iPad and Mac or PC, the best way to delete them is to delete them from your Safari browser on your Mac or PC first, then sync your iPad using the "This time only" + "Sync Bookmarks" settings. It will, on that sync only, replace all the bookmarks on your iPad with those on your Mac or PC.

Thanks to martmitch for the link!

Add me to this list. My iPad 1 lags on every task where before iOS 5 it was quite responsive. Every click, launch and action seems slower. I was wondering if it was my older iPad but the iphone 4's in my family dont exhibit the same problems.

iOS 5.0.1 coming soon it's going to fix the lags and add multi-gestures for it and Fix battery! 🙂

Turned off all notifications and iCloud syncs, noticed an immediate improvement. And those were 2 of the big iOS 5 features, right? Sigh. I'm not sure if the performance is back to where it was on iOS 4 but it's close.

this happened to my iPad too after installing the iOS 5 but after restarting it (by holding the lock button and menu button until screen turns black) the performance became normal again. Hope it works for yours too! www.techreviewslive.blogspot.com

Hi all

100 percent correct

It's true ...now my iPad too slow after updating to its 5. Before it was a joy to update new version. Now it's a night mare. Now even I am thinkingg to downgrade to ios 4.3.

Thanks AKLA. Hope you are right. My battery on iPad 1 with IOS 5 has been zapped twice now, in the week I downloaded. Other issues are all there too.